Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle!thoger From: thoger@solan.unit.no (Terje Th|gersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: alias on ibm-pc, anyone? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 19:28:17 GMT References: <29520@usc> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology Lines: 43 In-Reply-To: phuocle@skat.usc.edu's message of 23 Jan 91 03:07:42 GMT In article <29520@usc> phuocle@skat.usc.edu (Christopher Le) writes: Wouldn't it be nice if someone could write a program that can do aliases for the ibm machines? I know people have wrote programs for ls, more, cat, rm and others, but no alias yet. Any super programmers wanna do it? Chris phuocle@skat.usc.edu Check out CMDEDIT, recently put out by PC-Magazine. This is almost a "tcsh" for dos, giving aliases, file name completion, pusd/popd etc, etc.. A bit silly, as all commands gotten from stdin end up in the same buffer. (that is, all commands you've typed in 'debug' end up in the same buffer as the commands you've typed on the commandline. A by-product of this is that all programs that use stdin get the filename completion etc..) Other programs to do "aliasing" : CED - This is the original. The best until CMDEDIT came along, in my opinion. Uses 12k mem. when whittled down as far as it can go. COMMANDO - Cute, uses less mem, buggy. Has file name completion. ALIAS - Also by PC magazine. Limited. There's one more, but I didn't keep it for very long since it's nagware, requiring you to type in a random, 10-digit number on startup. Gets tiring, for a program to be loaded from autoexec.bat.... All programs found on simtel / wustl. CMDEDIT / Alias are freeware, the other shareware. (or atleast that's what I seem to recall.. :-)) regards, -Terje -- ____________________________________________________________________________ thoger@solan.unit.no | Institute of Physical Chemistry THOGER AT NORUNIT.BITNET | Div. of Computer Assisted Instrumental Analysis | Norwegian Institute of Technology